Stephen Stubbs (baroque guitar/director) along with Tekla Cunningham (baroque violin), Christine Beckman (baroque violin), Caroline Nicolas (baroque cello), Maxine Eilander (baroque harp), Henry Lebedinsky (organ/harpsichord), Antonio Gomez (percussion), play an excerpt…
A lesson on how to play rolled chords on classical guitar and how they affect expression, phrasing, and more in our music. The example piece is Andante (from Schule für…
Polish guitarist Dominika Dawidowska plays Sonata K.11, L.352 by Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757), originally written for keyboard. This comes via Matthew McAllister’s YouTube but you can also follow Dawidowska’s Youtube. Dominika…
Rondeau, Pastorel, Passepied, Giga by David Kellner (1670-1748) PDF sheet music arranged for classical guitar (originally for lute). Comes with both a notation edition with left hand fingering and a separate…
The Rising of the Moon (Irish Folk Song) arranged for classical guitar. This piece is from my Easy Folk Songs Volume 1 – For Solo Fingerstyle or Classical Guitar. 25 folk songs…
An older review of three of the best guitar supports I use on a regular basis and why. I’ve done so many reviews of supports over the years that people…
E Chromatic Scale in Octaves – Practice in both solid form and broken. Use any logical right hand fingering such as p-i the entire time or alternating p-i-p-m. There are…
Oman Kaminsky & Robbin Blanco play Am grabe der Geliebten by Johann Kaspar Mertz (1806-1856). This comes via Kaminsky’s YouTube channel. I’ve always loved these duets for guitar and terz guitar (a terz…
Performance, Lesson, Sheet Music: Allemande from Suite in E Minor, BWV 996 by Bach Sheet Music, Tab, or Free Unfingered Edition Here’s the second lesson for my edition of the…
Tengyue ‘TY’ Zhang plays A Fancy (Poulton No. 73) by John Dowland (1563-1626) on a 2005 Kenneth Brögger guitar. This comes via Guitar Salon International and their YouTube channel. Great playing as usual from this exciting…
Closed Slurs in Groups of Six and Rhythmic Accents. Slurs (hammer-ons, pull-offs, in sextuplets) from page 89 in my technique book. Try to emphasize rhythmic groups of three in your…
Andrea De Vitis plays Into the rose-garden (in memory of Julian Bream) by Angelo Gilardino (B. 1941). This comes via his great YouTube channel. The passing of Bream has brought…